> I tend to treat my laptops as disposable and keep my important data on a file server so I don't rely on local disk space.

I do the same, except I use an extensive dotfiles, config, and bootstrap script repo[0].

So I like the idea of Nix for that reason. It's going to be hard to let go of Debian/Ubuntu, but I'd really like to have a perfectly reproducible environment like Nix.

Thanks for your reply.

0. however, I also unfortunately have to use Windows sometimes,so I dual boot, and that takes up significant room on my smallish laptop drive